While speaking at an AIDS charity gala on January 31, 2008, Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's onscreen daughter in
Brokeback Mountain and
formed a close friendship with him on set, spoke of her grief following his unti
mely death: "I got the chance to spend some ti
me with him, and he talked a lot about his family, because I have the sa
me na
me as his sister. It is so sad, and I just hope his family [is] given the chance to grieve."
Ledger's Brokeback Mountain daughter grieves